-osis

See also: osis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /-əʊ.sɪs/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /-oʊ.sɪs/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /-əʉ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Suffix

-osis (plural -oses)

1. (pathology) functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
2. process, action such as phagocytosis
3. formation, increase such as leukocytosis

Usage notes

Corresponding adjectives are formed using -otic.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -osis

Translations

suffix for functional disorders

• Catalan: -osi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 症 (zh) (zhèng)

• Czech: -óza f
• Dutch: -ose (nl)
• Esperanto: -ozo
• Finnish: -oosi
• French: -ose (fr)
• Galician: -ose (gl) f
• German: -ose (de)
• Hungarian: -ózis
• Interlingua: -osis
• Irish: -óis f
• Japanese: 症 (ja) (shō)
• Latin: -ōsis f (New Latin)
• Occitan: -osi f
• Polish: -oza (pl) f
• Portuguese: -ose (pt) f
• Russian: -оз (ru) m (-oz)
• Spanish: -osis (es) f

See also

• -exia
• -iasis
• -itis
• -otic
• Template:Helminthiases (Infectious · Parasitic disease)

Anagrams

• ISOs, isos, ossi-, sois

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from English -osis, French -ose, Italian -ose, Portuguese -ose/Spanish -osis, Russian -оз (-oz), all ultimately via Latin from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈosis/, /ˈozis/

Suffix

-osis

1. (pathology) forms nouns from nouns, denoting functional disease or condition; -itis

   ‎neuro- (“neuro- (“nerve”)”) + ‎-osis → ‎neurosis (“neurosis”)

   ‎tuberculo (“tubercle”) + ‎-osis → ‎tuberculosis (“tuberculosis”)

   ‎halito (“breath”) + ‎-osis → ‎halitosis (“halitosis”)

Usage notes

• A corresponding adjectival suffix is -otic.

Derived terms

Category Interlingua terms suffixed with -osis not found

References

• Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis). This suffix was already found in Classical Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek (e.g. metamorphōsis, from Ancient Greek μεταμόρφωσις (metamórphōsis), itself from μετᾰμορφόω (metamorphóō) +‎ -σῐς (-sis)).

Suffix

-ōsis f (genitive -ōsis); third declension

1. (New Latin, pathology) -osis

   ‎tūberculum (“tubercle”) + ‎-ōsis → ‎tūberculōsis (“tuberculosis”)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	-ōsis	-ōsēs
genitive	-ōseos -ōsis	-ōseōn
dative	-ōsi	-ōsesin -ōsibus
accusative	-ōsin -ōsim	-ōseis
ablative	-ōsi	-ōsesin -ōsibus
vocative	-ōsis	-ōsēs

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -osis

Related terms

• -ōticus (“-otic”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

-ōsīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of -ōsus

Spanish

Suffix

-osis f (noun-forming suffix, plural -osis)

1. (pathology) -osis

Derived terms

Spanish terms suffixed with -osis

Further reading

• “-osis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10